Ya. People didn't go it was the car engines that went....yea. Well it's traffic in the bright days in Colorado

So I am convinced that we are now in a time paradox, much like in the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy books. Where Arthur Dent comes back to earth to the find it really wasn't destroyed because of a time loop. Other then that I think I slept through the rapture. >>

LOL, I had to go to some....mature adult party that day so thank God Jesus didn't save me on that day or I would be irritated

I find the idea that people still go around and call for the end of the world rather hillarious. I mean, in the year 999, they said the world was going to end because Jesus had been gone for 1000 years, and would be returning. Since then, Someone has been saying the world was going to end at least once a month. It's just not going to happen. Oddly though, I heard a very different thing about what the Rapture was going to be. I heard it was supposed to be some kind of super earthquake that was going to start in Haiti, then move to the east, until it reaches Haiti again.

Now they say the next rapture is on October 21st of this year oTL

I think I heard this somewhere. Who decided this date and why?

I'll find the link about it, while you guys talk about the failed rapture

It was by the same guy who predicted May's rapture, and he was so surprised that it didn't work that he couldn't say "I was wrong, I'm sorry" he predicted it a later date so that way he won't be considered wrong, it would be a "miscalculation"

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/

I find it kind of strange how this guy, who I believe is at least passingly familiar with William Miller and his Great Disappointment, is doing, basically, the exact same thing. And people are still falling for it. Twice! *smacks head*

And Lunaryon, I remember my philosophy of religion professor telling us about the Millenarianism movement in the year 999, and I always thought that was kind of odd, since... A.D. doesn't stand for After Death, but Ano Domini, the Year of Our Lord, which began counting when Christ was (supposedly) born, meaning that it wouldn't be 1,000 years until 1033.

What's kind of weird to consider is that, barring a meteor impact or gamma ray burst or other unanticipated, unavoidable cosmic event, our planet will likely be around long enough that humanity could theoretically go extinct and re-evolve with completely different religions, possibly several times, before our solar time is up. Not that that outcome is very likely, but it's something to think about.

Meh. Somehow I bet that we'd end up with almost identical beliefs.

Yea, I'm an atheist (not to offend anyone), so for me I let nature take it's cycle, but when humans come up with new items and technology that takes up Earth's resources that it has been producing for thousands of years only to run out of it for only a century or two. I t can change the way nature processes things, hence natural disasters, not because God hates us.

@Echo- Why in the world would your being an atheist be offensive to anyone? Hell I have it in my signature in bright rainbow colors XP

And about this new rapture date ... Let's just say I'm sure we'll all be around to celebrate Halloween XP

I had a thought the other day about the world ending... Just wanted to post here and see what you guys think ^^

From what i've learned that everyone is going off the notion that world will end in 12-21-12 because of the Mayan calendar... What if this has happened before..?

What if the Mayans and the Egyptians and all the civilizations from old were as advanced as we are now but something happened in the year 12-21-12 (in their time, as if they had lived then or now) That stopped them from telling what would happen after that date? And that after that had happened the world started over, leaving behind it the ruins of those people?
Scientists today can figure out how they made the things they did. The tall builds, the sculptors, the pyramids and so on. What if the world ends, covering all that we have made and starting over to where the next set of man kind think the same thing about us and things that we have made?


It was just something I thought of

Sic transit gloria mundi -- And the glory of the world becomes less than it was. Except, it doesn't.

You'd think there'd be some sort of archaeological record of such a civilization having come before our own. You're talking either extra-terrestrial or divine intervention to manufacture a conspiracy of that sort, dressing these supposedly advanced ancient civilizations in the trapping of mere bronze age technology.

On the other hand, I think you should sell the film rights. People eat that sort of thing up. Probably because reality is so boring in contrast. :p

Sadly that is true. What I'd give to even temperaraly smash uor universe into another, have things lap over. Especially if it's a comic-book verse.

Hmm... yeah, I think I'll stick with my nice, (relatively) safe, boring universe. Thanks all the same. :p